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Iran's president slams the West over the war in Gaza and support for Israel
BAGHDAD (AP) — Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian on Wednesday slammed the West, saying that Israel is “committing massacres” in the war in Gaza and using European and American weapons to do so. Pezeshkian, who spoke in Baghdad at the start of his first visit abroad since...
Explosion reported at US military facility near Baghdad airport ahead of Iranian president's visit
BAGHDAD (AP) — Iraqi security officials said an explosion targeted a site used by the U.S. military next to Baghdad airport late Tuesday, one day before an expected visit by Iran's president. The expected visit by Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian to Baghdad Wednesday would be...
2 Georgia National Guard soldiers die in separate noncombat incidents in Iraq
ATLANTA (AP) — Two Georgia National Guard soldiers died Wednesday in Iraq in what the U.S. Army says were unrelated noncombat deaths. Spc. Travis Jordan Pameni, 23, of Douglasville died in Baghdad after an incident in another location, the Army said. Pameni was assigned to the 1st...
The closure of camps in Iraq housing Yazidis displaced by IS attacks is postponed, an official says
IRBIL, Iraq (AP) — The Iraqi government has postponed an order to clear out camps in the country’s semi-autonomous northern Kurdish region that house thousands of people who fled when the Islamic State group seized their home areas a decade ago, officials said Tuesday. Earlier...
Ten years on, many Yazidis uprooted by Islamic State onslaught struggle to find stable homes
SINJAR, Iraq (AP) — When Rihan Ismail returned to her family’s home in the heartland of her Yazidi community, she was sure she was coming back for good. She had yearned for that moment throughout long years of captivity. Islamic State militants had abducted...
Shiite Muslims in Lebanon and Iraq commemorate Ashoura, marking the death of Imam Hussein
BEIRUT (AP) — Shiite Muslims Wednesday in Lebanon and Iraq commemorated Ashoura, marking the 7th-century death of Prophet Muhammad’s grandson, Hussein, that gave birth to their faith, while paying tribute to Palestinians as the Israel-Hamas war entered its 10th month and tensions heightened...
A leading human rights group calls on Iraq to halt deportations of Syrian refugees
BAGHDAD (AP) — Iraqi authorities in Baghdad and the administration in the semi-autonomous northern Iraqi Kurdish region have been arbitrarily detaining and deporting Syrian refugees to their country, a leading international rights group said Thursday. The New York-based Human...
